Jeopardy 2013

27 February 2013Nishit Jain & Arjun Attam

Basics

• Three parts & scoring varies• Infinite bounce• Whenever not specified: you cannot choose

level n on a direct if you haven’t answered level n-1 in that part

• Everything connects: be alert and note down what goes where

• Hope you have fun

Part I

• LVC: 10 images and 5 slides• Scoring:– First slide: +10 -5– Second slide: +8 -4 – Third slide: +6 -3– Fourth slide: +4 -2– Fifth slide: +2 -0

Part II

• 5 x 5 grid: 5 themes with 5 levels each• Themes:– Work-outs– Trivia– Pic connects– Algebra– Jeopardy!

• Scoring for levels: +2, +2, +3, +3, +4

Work Out Picture Connect

Trivia Algebra Jeopardy!

WO1 PC1 T1 AL1 J1

WO2 PC2 T2 AL2 J2

WO3 PC3 T3 AL3 J3

WO4 PC4 T4 AL4 J4

WO5 PC5 T5 AL5 J5

Connects

• WO1, TR2, PC2, AL5, J5 • PC1, J3, TR5, WO3, AL3• WO4, TR3, J1, WO2, AL4 • AL2, PC5, J2, TR4, TR2, AL1

• Scoring: +10 -5, +8 -4, +6 -3, +4 -2, +2 0

WO1There are nine villages in ____:

Dargah Hussain Shahwali_____Hyder Shah KoteIbrahim Bagh LinesKakatiya NagarLunger HouseNanakramgudaSakkubai NagarToli Chowki

"Hast thou from the caves of _____, a gem / pure as the ice-drop that froze on the mountain?“ – John Keats

CLUE GRID

GRIDQUESTION

WO2

The verb "to ______" originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive _____ was dubbed a “______”

GRID

WO3Monsieur Hulot is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s and '60s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1959), Play Time (1967) and Trafic (1971). The character of Hulot (although played by another actor) also appears briefly in François Truffaut's Bed & Board (1970).

He is recognized by his overcoat, pipe and hat, and his distinctive lurching walk. His escapades usually involved clashes with technology and the problems of living in an increasingly impersonal and gadgetized world.

The name of "Monsieur Hulot" is believed to echo "Charlot," the French name for Charlie Chaplin’s character The Tramp. However, "Hulot is more distracted than the Tramp, he cannot disentangle himself from situations as effortlessly, and he is not as central a character, he is not ‘the reason for the film.’”

What did M. Hulot inspire? GRID

WO4

“catchy chorus is the most arresting hook since PSY's Gangnam Style”

"a cutesy indie-pop hit in the style of Feist”

"instant earworm material“

"darkly cute - and irksomely catchy"

X was performed by Emily Lubit with Ollie McGill providing backing vocals. It was released on iTunes and attributed to the artist "Tangerine Kitty"

GRID

WO5• X is a fictional company of the WALL•E universe. WALL•E himself is a X

product. In preparation for marketing the movie, Disney purchased a domain called X.com in order to create a viral website for promotional purposes.

• Andrew Stanton, in a commentary on the WALL•E DVD, stated his inspirations for X were large corporations and how some people let consumerism govern how they run their lives. He stated that the people at Pixar had always pictured WALL•E as "a trash compactor when the idea for the movie was first discussed. He reversed-engineered the idea on why WALL•E was cleaning up the planet and why the Earth was covered in trash and the idea of what if a company was the government. And according to the commentary, one of the artists, Teddy Newton, came up with the term "X Corporation". Stanton was intrigued by the term and he was able to truncate it to an acronym which "tripped off the tongue real easily".

• X is a pun on the idiom Y, which has it's roots in in sailing. GRID

GRID

PC1

GRID

PC2

PC3

GRID

PC4

GRID

GRID

PC5

T1

GRID

Kom and Irom have become the most visible faces of the women’s movement in Manipur today, embodying all that the society struggles for. In fact, the petite Manipuri women have been organising themselves for decades as watchdogs of society plagued with insurgency, poverty, unemployment, border issues, army high handedness and State apathy. Every locality has a council of women who are part of a state wide group, which was founded by Th Ramani in 1971. Which group?

T2

Which movie won the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2013?

GRID

T3

Authorities in which nation in association with Mentos launched the National Night campaign on August 9, 2012?

GRID

T4

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is a fictional character in George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm. Who is he an allegory for?

GRID

T5

There is no NBA team based in San Diego, but the city has been associated with two NBA teams in the 60s and 70s. One of were the Clippers, which was the other?

GRID

AL1

X and Y were the first two people in the world to do something. The character Z is named after Y.

A is the creator of Z. A’s first job was with B. Today, A’s company and B are rivals.

A’s second job was with C’s company, which was recently acquired by B for $4.05b.

X died in Ohio, on August 25 2012, at the age of 82

GRID

AL2X and Y are famously reclusive authors and it

was rumored for a long time that X is a pseudonym for Y. X has famously appeared on the Simpsons show a few times.

The protagonist (A) of Y’s most famous novel (B) previously appeared in a story called I’m Crazy, which is closely related to the first chapter of B.

It is said that Y saw himself for some time as “Z's successor.” Z is a member of the Lost Generation and his most famous novel (C) has been the basis for numerous films. GRID

AL3

A & B, C & D are two married couples.The interests of A and C include playing pool,

_____, poker, tinkering around in A's garage and playing golf. C is a talented pianist and drummer.

As young adults, B and D were employed as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. There, they first met, and fell in love, with their future husbands, A and C.

CLUE GRID

AL4A and B were involved in a major rivalry, which

led to both their deaths.According to an interview with MTV, C was so

moved by A's life and work that he wrote a letter to A's mother asking her to consider letting him produce a posthumous album ‘Loyal to the Game’

B was spotted by D, who signed him up to his record label immediately. D is the producer of MTV’s Making the Band and Forbes estimated him to be the richest man in hip-hop in 2012.

C released his debut solo album Infinite in 1996.X is an annual three-day music and arts festival,

founded by Paul Tollett. What is special about this picture of A at X? GRID

AL5• According to common legend, A was created in the

shape of a stirrup to commemorate the victory of X's King Jan III Sobieski over the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Y in 1683

• Y is famous as a hub of European culture – A Y ball is an all-night cultural attraction. Major Y balls generally begin at 9 pm and last until 5 am, although many guests carry on the celebrations into the next day.

• B (plural), especially the large soft ones, are similar to A (plural), the main exceptions being the shape and the alkaline water bath that makes the surface dark and glossy.

• C is Indian and looks somewhat like B. The earliest written references to C are found in a 13th-century cookbook by Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi. In Iran, where it is known as Zulbia, it was traditionally given to the poor during Ramadan

GRID

J1

Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia

GRID

J2

Co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party

GRID

J3

• Sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

GRID

J4

• 3-8 June 1984

GRID

J5

Michê, Dzu-teh, Migoi or Mi-go, Bun Manchi, Mirka, Kang Admi

GRID

Part III

• 8 themes, 5 levels = 40 questions• Power-up period: direct question 11 to 15 and 21

to 25: pick whatever you want• Themes: – Entertainment (E) — Travel & Geography (T)– Literature (L) — History &

Myth (HM)– Sci & Tech (ST) — Sports (S)– Business (B) — Politics & lifestyle

(PL)

J

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Connects

• Orange: EN2, PL5, PL1, ST1, TL2• Green: ST2, HM2, BU1, BU2, L5 • Red: EN3, BU4, EN4, L1, HM3 • Violet: PL2, L3, TL1, SP2, BU3• Black: HM1, L4, SP4, L2, TL4• Yellow: HM4, SP1, TL5, PL3, PL4• White: ST3, TL3, EN1, EN5, HM5• Blue: ST4, ST5, SP3, SP5, BU5

E1

Made (2001)Elf (2003)Zathura (2005)Iron Man (2008)Iron Man 2 (2010)Cowboys & Aliens (2011)Revolution (2012)The Office (2013)

GRID

+

= ?

E2 GRID

X’s show A is a parody of personality-driven political opinion shows. In the past, X has worked with Y (on B, which Y hosts) and briefly as a freelance writer for Z.

Both A and B air on C. B is currently the longest running program on C, and has won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Z debuted in 1975, has won 36 Primetime Emmy Awards and the first episode was hosted by this guy.

E3 GRID

This narrative device is used as an innocent observer to make incisive, often humorous, sometimes sad but always touching observations. History suggests it came into being in 1906 and was actually a song of protest against the British imperial rule. It was derived from the English word X and was created by folk singers Manda and Bishna when the flaming torch toured all over the British empire in celebration of the Victoria Regina's rule.

E4

GRID

E5

Connect track with picture.

(song)

GRID

Architect Charles Ribart proposed a three-level, elephant-shaped building that would be entered via a spiral staircase. What for?

T1

GRID

T2

A new UK-based travel company, called "Wish," is offering this deal:

For a base price of £4999, travellers can pay for “the most _____ _____ currently employed in British aviation”

Funda?

CLUEGRID

In 2005, a particular institution in country X had been assigned the responsibility for issuing passports for Y, with the aim of reducing an illegal trade. Y have been integral to the life of people in X.

This institution is the world's foremost Y welfare institution, and the first of its kind. It opened on 3 October 1999, as an affiliate of the nation's environment agency, since when it has been directed by German surgeon Dr Margit Gabriele Müller.

T3 CLUEGRID

GRID

T4

It is illegal to do this if you have the plague

You can do this with a hat, an umbrella or a hand

Before the Act of 1831 was repealed in 1976, if you wanted to stay within the law when doing this in London, you should have checked that ____ had a bale of hay and a sack of oats

GRID

T5

GRID

HM1

X about Y: “If shariyat would allow me, I would want Y and I to be buried in the same grave.”

Y’s followers believe that X also said “Those who visit my grave should first pay respect at Y’s”

Y died 6 months after X.

GRID

X was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II. Raids were aimed at the 60-MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in Telemark, Norway. Between 1940 and 1944, a sequence of sabotage actions, by the Norwegian resistance movement—as well as Allied bombing—ensured the destruction of the plant.

• In Operation Grouse, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) successfully placed four Norwegian nationals in the region of the Hardanger Plateau above the plant. Later in 1942 they were to rendezvous with the Norwegians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork. This attempt failed.

• In 1943, a team of SOE-trained Norwegian commandos succeeded in destroying the production facility with a second attempt, Operation Gunnerside. Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.

• These actions were followed by Allied bombing raids. The Germans elected to cease operation and remove the remaining ____ to Germany. Norwegian resistance forces sank the ferry, on Lake Tinnsjø, preventing ____ from being removed.

Why were these sabotage missions carried out?

HM2

GRID

HM3

“If every one of them were written down, ...even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written”

GRID

Place of Organisation ChairmanFirst Thenmadurai Agastya

Second Kapatapuram Earlier- AgastyaLater- Tolkappiyar

Third Madurai Nakkirar

CLUE

HM4

GRID

HM5

X was one of the four brothers who conspired with Y in the castration of their father Z. When Sky descended to lie with Earth, X, Krios, Koios and Iapetos--posted at the four corners of the world--seized hold of their father and held him fast while Y castrated him with a sickle. In this myth these four personify the great pillars which appear in Near-Eastern cosmogonies holding heaven and earth apart, or else the entire cosmos aloft.

As the father of the sun and dawn, X was no doubt regarded as the pillar of the east.

GRID

• Siemens & ThyssenKrupp collaborate to form the X system. Based on a patent from 1934, planning of X started in 1969. The test facility for the system in Emsland, Germany was completed in 1987. In 1991, the technical readiness for application was approved by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in cooperation with renowned universities. In 2004, the first commercial implementation in Shanghai was completed.

• In Japan, the RTRI was established in its current form in 1986 just before public parent company JR was privatised and split. Research topics include earthquake detection and alarm systems, systems for detecting obstacles on level crossings, reducing energy usage, noise barriers and preventing vibrations, among other topics.

Currently RTRI beats X at the record. What do these two organisations do?

B1

GRID

• As of the start of 2009 X has the maximum number of companies listed on the NASDAQ: 63. The economy of X has been studied in depth by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, who have written a book Y, calling X a _____ (same as Y.) The Economist notes that X now has more high-tech ventures and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other country in the world.

• According to the authors, factors are mandatory military service and immigration.

• Using stories and anecdotes, the book provides examples of X's technological and medical achievements, among them "the innovations that made possible Google Suggest, the list of suggestions that appear instantly in menu form as you type a search request, the Capsule endoscopy, a miniature camera embedded in a pill so that 18 photos per second can be wirelessly and painlessly transmitted from gastrointestinal tracts."

B2

GRID

X

Y

B3

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B4

CLUE

GRID

Jim Henson was most famous for his work as a puppeteer for Sesame Street. Throughout the years of Sesame Street’s production, Jim occasionally allowed his Muppets to make appearances in commercials where he felt the situation and product was particularly appropriate. One such product was _______, which was distributed internationally by X and, at the time, not available in the United States. Jim agreed to produce commercials for _____ because the commercial viewing market was outside of the US. He felt that his young American viewers would not be confused in thinking that a furry monster-like Muppet was trying to sell them Y.

The commercials featured a large green creature with a bright orange nose known as the “____ Craver,” who would do almost anything to have ____.

GRID

BU5

All Xs are leased in two-year cycles (in the late 90's and early 2000s, three year contracts were an option), with leases based on how many displays are connected to each X.

It is available for a monthly fee of $1,500 a user ($1,800 a month for the small number of firms that use only one terminal). As of May 2010, there were 310,000 X subscribers worldwide.

Most Xs have between two and six displays.GRID

L1

Whose bibliography?– Shadows on the wall, J. Day Co., 1948.– The Story of Gandhiji, Kutub Pub., 1949.– We Nehrus, by ____ with Alden Hatch. Holt,

Rinehart and Winston; 1967.– Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira

Gandhi, Published by Macmillan, 1969.– With No Regrets - An Autobiography, by ____

CLUE

GRID

GRID

L2

______ is supposedly a ‘corrupted’ form of the word recruitThe earliest example from the OED is from Rudyard Kipling's

Barrack-Room Ballads (published 1892) referring to ______ in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army:

So 'ark an' 'eed, you _____, which is always grumblin' sore, There's worser things than marchin' from Umballa to

Cawnpore; An' if your 'eels are blistered an' they feels to 'urt like 'ell, You drop some tallow in your socks an' that will make 'em

well.GRID

L3

GRID

L4Hitoshi Igarashi• Born 1947• Completed his doctoral programme in Islamic art at the University of Tokyo in 1976• Assistant professor of comparative culture• Stabbed several times on July 11, 1991 and left in the hallway outside his office at

Tsukuba UniversityWilliam Nygaard• Born 1943• Degree in Economics• Chief publisher (CEO) of Aschehoug, Norway's second largest publishing house• Shot three times outside his home in Dagaliveien in Oslo in 1993Ettore Capriolo• Playright, professor and professor of history• Stabbed and wounded in Milan by a hit squad on 3 July 1991

GRID

L5

X’s two best-selling books are Y and Z. He is known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels.. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem"

Y was a worldwide best-seller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman. Y was the biggest bestseller in the United States since Gone with the Wind. GRID

PL1

In the late 1820s, Edward Dyer moved from England to set up the first _____ in India.

Today, this is still in existence and is doing very well. Till the 1980s, its ‘product’ X dominated its market, while today, Y is one of the world leaders in its market.

X and Y?

GRID

PL2

The origin of this dish is traced to textile mill workers in Mumbai in the 1850s. The mill workers used to have lunch breaks too short for a full meal, and a light lunch was preferred to a heavy one, as the employees had to return to strenuous physical labor after lunch.

A vendor created this dish using items or parts of other dishes available on the menu.

GRID

“Bade bade sheheron mein chhoti chhoti cheezein hoti rehti hain”A famous statement by X. When?

X: state :: Z: nation Z?

PL3

GRID

PL4

The self-advertised mission of X is ‘protection of Rashtra-Dharma and Sanskriti through… a renaissance in the Hindu society with Service, Security and Sanskars as its motto.’

X aggressively recruits young women from low-income earning and lower caste families. Members learn karate and lathi, and receive ideological education

X is said to be the female face of Y. GRID

PL5

X ran for President in ‘96, ’00 (candidate of Y party), ‘04 and ’08 (independent).He came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in general.In 2000, X is accused of taking away some of Al Gore’s votes and thus being responsible for George Bush’s victory.X and Y?

GRID

S1GRID

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SP3

X and Y were fierce rivals for close to 13 years, although they have cultivated a close friendship since.

X won the Z in 1980 and ‘82, while Y won it in ’81They faced each other in ‘84, ‘85 and ‘87 as well.“Y represented ____, a blue-collar city. X's GQ persona

was the right fit in ____. It didn't hurt that Y was white, playing in ____, a city with a history of racial intolerance. It certainly helped that X was in _____, one of the most diverse cities in the nation.”

GRID

SP4

(Video)

GRID

SP5

?GRID

ST1

GRID

The word "obelus" comes from ὀβελός, the Greek word for a sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar. This is the same root as that of the word "obelisk". Originally this sign (or a plain line) was used in ancient manuscripts to mark passages that were suspected of being corrupted or spurious. It represented an iron roasting spit, a dart, or the sharp end of a javelin, symbolizing the skewering or cutting out of dubious matter.

The obelus, invented by Aristarchus to mark suspected passages in Homer, is frequent in manuscripts of the Gospel to mark just those sections, like the Pericope in John, which modern editors reject.

Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636 AD) described the use of the symbol as follows: "The obelus is appended to words or phrases uselessly repeated, or else where the passage involves a false reading, so that, like the arrow, it lays low the superfluous and makes the errors disappear... The obelus accompanied by points is used when we do not know whether a passage should be suppressed or not."

ST2

GRID

X wrote, "Y thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go and see him next week…in that case the Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations. I clearly see their perfect union with modern science, and the elucidation of the one will be followed by that of the other."

Here X uses the terms force and matter for the Sanskrit terms Prana and Akasha. After the meeting, Y, who was alien to Sanskrit, began using the Sanskrit terms and understood them as energy and mass.

Y apparently failed in his effort to show the identity of mass and energy, and the solution did not come till ten years later, in a paper by Einstein. Apparently he understood that when speed increases, mass must decrease. He seems to have thought that mass might be "converted" to energy and vice versa, rather than that they were identical in some way, as is pointed out in Einstein's equations. At any rate, X seems to have sensed where the difficulty lay in joining the maps of European science and Advaita Vedanta and set Y to solve the problem.

ST3

GRID

ST4Project _____ is a list of scientists with the given

name ____ or a variation thereof who "support evolution“

It was originally created by the National Center for Science Education as a "tongue-in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to collect a list of scientists who "doubt evolution”

The list pokes fun at such endeavors to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!” It also honors this guy

Despite the list's restriction to only scientists with names like "_____", which in the United States limits the list to roughly 1 percent of the total population, Project _____ is longer and contains many more eminent scientists than any creationist list.

GRID

ST5______ _______is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy ("eating the environment"). The term was first used by molecular nanotechnology pioneer X in his book Engines of Creation (1986).

He illustrates both exponential growth and inherent limits (not ___ ____) by describing nanomachines that can function only if given special raw materials: ‘Imagine such a replicator floating in a bottle of chemicals, making copies of itself…the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined — if the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before’ GRID

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